The Tempus project:

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The Tempus projectJoint M.Sc. Curriculum in
Software engineering

• Zoran Budimac
• DMI, Univ. of Novi Sad

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Facts

• Joint M.Sc. Curriculum in SE
• To create a joint graduate curriculum in software
  engineering leading to the M.Sc. degree according
  to Bologna declaration. To provide an environment
  for teachers and students mobility. The
  curriculum would be common for all beneficiary
  partners and partly even for partners from EU.
  In addition, it will be of greater interest also
  for other universities in South-Eastern Europe.
• 3 years (1. Oct. 2004 - 31. Sept. 2007)
• Budget 372,407 20,000

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Partners (1)

• Management
• DMI, Univ. of Novi Sad, Zoran Budimac(coordinator
  )
• Inst. of Informatics, Humboldt Univ., Klaus Bothe
  (contractor)

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Partners (2)

• Partners from EU
• Dept. of SE, Univ. of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain,
  Rebeca Cortazar
• Soft. Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort
  Univ., Leicester, UK, Hussein Zedan
• Beneficiary partners
• Inst. of Informatics, Univ. of Skopje, Macedonia,
  Katerina Zdravkova
• Electro-technical faculty, Univ. of Belgrade,
  Dragan Bojic
• Fac. of Electronics, Univ. Of Niš, Milena
  Stankovic

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Partners (3)

• Individual experts
• Ioan Jurca, Politehnica Univ. of Timisoara,
  Rumania
• Stanimir Stoyanov, Univ. of Plovdiv, Bulgaria

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Origins of the project

• DAAD/Stability pact project (Berlin, Novi Sad,
  Skopje, Belgrade, Plovdiv, Timisoara)
• According to Tempus rules
• Previous partners of NS (Leicester, Niš)
• One new Bilbao
• Clear roles, duties, responsibilities

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Why not more partners?

• Realistic.
• Not easy to compose proposal for multi partner
  country projects (different and complicated
  selection procedures).
• This year 4 multi partner country projects of 28

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Needs analysis

• SE not well developed in the region
• SE has a great impact to (software) industry,
  administration, business,
• M.Sc. studies of to-academic nature
• ?
• Reformed M.Sc. studies in SE

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Outcomes

• We promised the whole package
• Principle(s) of M.Sc. studies according to
  Bologna declaration
• Inclusion of SE studies into these principles
  (practical exercises) ECTS
  International recognition
• The set of (fully prepared!) courses
• Start in 2007 - 5 students / 3 teachers from
  Mac to SCG (4 months/1 week) - 12 students /
  5 teachers from SCG to SCG (4 months/1 week)
  - 5 teachers from EU to SCG (1 week)

• 1. Defined principles of M.Sc. studies in SE.
• 2. Defined curriculum.
• 3. New teaching materials provided or created.
• 4. ECTS introduced and curriculum internationally
  recognized.
• 5. Dissemination and sustainability.
• 6. Quality control and monitoring.
• 7. Management of the project.

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Goals

• Establishing basic principles of M.Sc. studies in
  SE according to Bologna declaration and current
  EU practices. Those studies must be designed to
  fulfill labour market needs and needs for
  international student mobility.
• Creating the joint M.Sc. curriculum in such a way
  that every institution can adopt it with respect
  to regional needs and its own tradition.
• Implementing the curriculum.
• Establishing international recognition and
  quality control.
• Start of the studies in the summer semester of
  2007 in at least one center, with students and
  teachers mobility across the region and with
  guest teachers from EU.
• Inclusion of other countries in South-Eastern
  Europe during the dissemination phase. The
  following universities are current partners of
  the DAAD project in the framework of the
  Stability Pact and, thus, could be later
  involved the Universities of Tirana, Sarajevo,
  Banja Luka, Zagreb, Kragujevac.

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Results

• Duration of M.Sc. studies in SE The curriculum
  should cover 4 semesters. However, the final
  decision concerning the duration should also be a
  matter of the project results. In addition, the
  duration may depend even on the conditions of the
  respective university.
• Structure of the M.Sc. curriculum in SE The
  curriculum covers three semesters for lectures,
  exercises, and laboratory work and one semester
  for the master thesis. The courses have to be
  divided into compulsory and elective ones. Some
  of the courses can be institution-dependent.
• New Subjects of the curriculum The final list of
  the subjects will be fixed only in the course of
  the project, i.e. it is a matter of project
  progress. Core modules of the curriculum should
  include project management, requirements
  engineering, software architecture, software
  quality, and software testing. Elective courses
  may include modules in reverse engineering,
  software measurement, software ergonomics, formal
  software specification, and others.

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Inputs

• Equipment
• 4 servers, 31 workstations, 2 laser printers, 1
  scanner, 5 notebooks, 4 LAN infrastructures, 4 x
  system software, 4 x innovation of libraries.
• Mobility
• Teaching staff
• 31 flow from Partners to EU/Candidates
• 34 fows from EU/Candidates to Partners
• 8 flows from EU to EU
• 24 flows from from Partners to Partners
• 22 flows within partner countries
• Students
• 5 flows from Partners to Partners
• 12 flows within a partner country
• Meetings
• 4 workshops,
• 2 Inter-Tempus coaching workshops,
• 1 meeting,
• 3 project coordination meetings,
• 8 information sessions (dissemination)
• Publications

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Activities (1)

• 1. Defined principles of M.Sc. studies in SE.
• 1.1. Review of current practices and principles.
• 1.2. Defining pre-knowledge and principles.
• 2. Defined curriculum.
• 2.1. Review of current standards,
  recommendations, and curricula.
• 2.2. Defining modules and syllabus.
• 2.3. Implementation of curriculum.
• 3. New teaching materials provided or created.
• 3.1. Analysis of available literature.
• 3.2. Preparation and writing of slides.
• 3.3. Preparation of written course material.
• 3.4. Defining the structure and principles of
  lab exercises.
• 3.5. The presentation of teaching material on
  internet.
• 3.6. Teacher retraining.
• 4. ECTS introduced and curriculum internationally
  recognized.
• 4.1. Review of existing ECT Systems.
• 4.2. Introduction of ECTS.
• 4.3. Agreements on mutual recognition and
  building of quality control mechanisms

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Activities (2)

• 5. Dissemination and sustainability.
• 5.1. Information sessions.
• 5.2. Dissemination workshop.
• 6. Quality control and monitoring.
• 6.1. Internal reviews.
• 6.2. Evaluation by EU institutions.
• 6.3. Reviews by individual expert.
• 6.4. Inter-Tempus coaching.
• 7. Management of the project.
• 7.1. Project coordination meetings.

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2006/2007
2004/2005
2005/2006

• Defined principles

Defined curriculum
Definedcurriculum
New teaching materials provided or created
ECTS internationalrecognition
Dissemination and sustainability
Quality control and monitoring
Project management